Open Call for Heritage & Crafts Scheme (UK)

Deadline: 31-Jan-25

The Radcliffe Trust is thrilled to announce its Heritage & Crafts Scheme to support the development and practice of the skills, knowledge and experience that underpin the UK’s heritage and crafts sector.

This includes support for emerging craftspeople of high quality, craft and conservation projects and training, projects demonstrating creative outcomes by designer-makers, projects with potential for capacity building within the sector, and some special needs projects focusing on the therapeutic benefits of skills development.

The Trustees will consider making occasional grants in other areas of cultural creativity related to their concerns for heritage and crafts, including theatre, performance, and literature, especially where projects can be shown to contribute to the promotion and development of high-level skills among early career practitioners and disadvantaged groups.

Funding Information

• Grants are generally in the region of £2,500-£7,500.

Eligible Costs

• The Radcliffe Trust supports Heritage & Crafts projects, including training opportunities, but not fixed core costs.
• However, it accepts the principle of full cost recovery relating to a project and will consider the inclusion of a proportionate but limited share of your organisation’s overheads.
• They therefore request that, in breaking down the costs of your project for budgeting purposes, you distinguish clearly between the direct costs of a project and its associated overheads.

Ineligible Costs

• The Heritage & Crafts scheme does not support:
  • Capital costs
  • Core costs
  • Projects that are solely or primarily about nature, landscapes, gardens, land management or environmental conservation
  • Projects that are primarily social or therapeutic in nature
  • Projects that are solely or primarily for equipment or materials
  • Conceptual art
  • Conference fees or associated costs
  • NB Church of England Churches: they do not accept applications directly from Church of England Churches. Grants for the conservation of historic furnishings and artworks in Church of England Churches in England can only be made through the Church Buildings Council which receives a block grant from the Trust. Applications from any other denominations should be made directly to the Radcliffe Trust.

Eligibility Criteria

• General Eligibility:
  • Applications must be on behalf of a UK Charity, Not-For-Profit, or Exempt organisation
  • Applications must be for a specific project and not for a general appeal, or endowment fund
  • Applicants must be based in the UK
  • Bursaries and other support fees will normally be paid to the training organisation
  • If you have applied before, it must be at least a year since your last successful application
  • If your organisation has received three years of consecutive funding from The Radcliffe Trust, you can apply again, but only after a one-year break

Exclusions

• General Exclusions:
  • No retrospective grants
  • No general appeals or endowment funds
  • No mainstream schools
  • They do not accept applications from individuals, only from organisations

Application Requirements

• They will only consider one project for each application, so you must choose which project you think will most closely match the interests of the Trustees.
• You cannot submit more than one application per organisation for each grant round, per scheme.
• You can submit an application to each of the schemes in the same round, however, they do ask you to make it clear on the applications that you have submitted to both schemes.
• If you feel that additional information would help their assessment of your application, for example brochures, programmes or CVs, they will contact you to request it.
• If your application is unsuccessful you are welcome to submit another application in the next grant round. If your application is successful you must not reapply for 12 months, or until the project previously supported has been completed, unless asked to reapply by the Trustees.

For more information, visit The Radcliffe Trust.